This longer intro breakdown about the mons you are running was really cool and informative!if you ever do more competitive videos like these,do these intros! just finished the video and the commentary on the plays was awesome aswell...and the take on winning low percentage games was also w!

The recognition of timing on fast attack damage at 16:40 is something that can really help endgame decision-making. Thanks for the breakdown!

I wish Solgaleo and Lunala were more accessible.

@elimarburger1659

4 ай бұрын

I wish lunala was good

@InfamousSslickX

4 ай бұрын

All legendaries should be more accessible it takes forever to grind their candies anyway its not like they will be super effective right after catching it

@andrewgonzales3168

4 ай бұрын

I mean we get 2 opportunities it just sucks when both their IVs suck

@boartank

4 ай бұрын

If you have extra 2 accounts to "solo" raids with, you can funnel lucky cosmogs to your main account.

@ayooshq

4 ай бұрын

​@@andrewgonzales3168How do you get a second?

6 months into this game and first season playing and I can completely agree that it’s mindset. Hit Ace and was content. Started Evo Cup 4-1 and got destroyed with 0-5,0-5 and dropped from 2125 to 1943. I know people who probably would have thrown their phone through their tv lol. Luckily I’ve watched awesome content creators such as yourself and understand that I just don’t have the skill set yet of throwing on optimal timing, counting, etc. Found a better team, learned the matchups, focused on energy management, proper time to shield and climbed back to 2115. Definitely a MUST to stay positive and keep improving! We can all get 1% better everyday at anything if we put in the effort! The breakdown of different matchups was definitely different for you but I loved it as it helps me improve. As always, I appreciate your content my man 👊🏼

@HomeSliceHenry

4 ай бұрын

Happy to hear it! You got this 💪 Tough stretches can be super demoralizing. I've been getting whooped pretty bad in catch cup myself. But we can shake it off and bounce back stronger 🤝

@moris7361

4 ай бұрын

Got to 2458 this season, got hard countered the next 5 games, deleted the game and the account all together lol

This breakdown style for more of your signature / favorite teams is a big W

Absolutely great video. I really like the detailed breakdown of how to use a team that worked well for you. I can attest to the importance of having a good mentality while battling. Back in the early days of GBL I ran a team of sunny cherim, DD and, and skarm. It was a team indented to core break the very popular Azu/regi core. The team was fun but very weak to Awak. I went on an 11 game loosing streak because I ran into 11 awaks. I changed my team and didn’t see another awak for the rest of the day. Fast forward to when ultra premier rolled around. I was running an Abb team of siczor, gyarados, swamped. The team was designed to bait out venusaur who was the #1 Pokémon at the time. I went on another massive losing streak (12 games) and lost every single one of them because I was straight up outplayed. I realized in that moment that I’m not good enough at the game to worry about how the match making system works. Great stuff man

really liked the more strategic discussion type of video, this helps us a lot to understand.

Very well said Henry! I remember when I first started gbl, I would get so frustrated and lowkey was starting to believe there could be a system trying to keep my score at a certain percentage. But thanks to content creators like you I have hit legend every season since season 6. Counting moves and knowing energy helped a lot but what made me a legend/leaderboard trainer was learning move timing, I believe move timing is probably up there for trainers who want to improve. Keep up the great work Henry!

Bro I really enjoy the deep dive and analisys of the team! Great job & congrats on reaching that elo!

Such great advice about the triple hard counter situations. In RNG situations, bad luck happens. Keep up the great content, Henry!

I enjoy this kind of deep dive content a lot! Thanks for sharing the team and also thought process behind, it really helps out for me to design my team !

Great video on the breakdown and strategy it helps so many players understand a more in-dept analysis on what is more good and optimal for the format/meta as well. Dragonite is always going to be up there since it is a f2p pokemon and easily accessible since multiple C-Days as well.

Can't wait to watch this breakdown video. Longing for an in depth gameplay video from you. Can you possibly remind us what the band you're always listening to on Spotify is? They recently released an album you played on Livestream. Much love as always Henry!!

@HomeSliceHenry

4 ай бұрын

The band is called normandie!

@JohnDoe-ww2bm

4 ай бұрын

@@HomeSliceHenry much love sir you’ve made my off day that much better!

Favorite video so far! Been running this team since you put it out and have had mad fun in the master league and overcoming hard leads and counters. Best feeling

@HomeSliceHenry

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! :)

Thank you HSH!!! We like this style of video where we can hear coaching from you! Keep up the great work!!!

HSH, I have enjoyed your commentary from the moment I discovered you, and you have effectively “coached” me through your content. I was barely reaching Ace before I discovered you, and this morning I hit my career high of 3394 ELO! You’re a top tier player, coach and commentator and I look forward to all of your future content.

@HomeSliceHenry

4 ай бұрын

That's awesome, congrats!

Love this style of video. It helps give me a much better understanding of the team and how to use it. Thank you.

@HomeSliceHenry

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback!

This commentary is great!! Love the tutorial-esque nature of this video. 🤘

Man what a great video format. I don’t play ML but I feel like I learned some useful things. Good stuff

@HomeSliceHenry

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback!

Love the battles I learn a lot!

I love the mindset while playing , keep it on !

9:57 - Love the BM.

@TyTimeIsAwesome

4 ай бұрын

Always BM when you can. That's my motto.

I think this breakdown is very good, but the upcoming meta will be kinda rough for this team because of the horses. Thankyou for making this team breakdown tho!

We need more GO battle league videos like this that discuss how to stay motivated to keep on battling and get better

@HomeSliceHenry

4 ай бұрын

Thanke for the kind words!

I enjoyed this style of video more as it helps me understand why you do some of the things you do.

@HomeSliceHenry

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback! I can try and add videos like this periodically if I find a team that gives me sustained success

Love the positivity on bad matchups. Appreciate the encouraging words brother

14:54 I love those vibes, that outlook, and that perspective. And yes, there isn't some evil algorithm keeping players mired at the 2200 elo. I wish more players could emulate this mindset. Edit: One of the big reasons I unsubscribed from PokeAK's channel. He's run some entertaining content in the past, and he's had good insight on game news and events, but with a recalcitrant mentality, an unwillingness to improve, and a perpetuation in believing there is a made-up system keeping players down, I simply left.

I'm been working on my (15, 15, 14) 98% Solgaleo, every XL candy and regular candy I earn, I give to it and will keep doing it till I got enough to max it and use it in ML eventually

I definitely feel the rng at times. I'll admit to that. I've been running a team in the catch cup and I had such an unlucky streak that I had matches that were close, but went 5 or 4 losses.I then play at midnight reset and have games where I go 5 wins with some great leads (on the same team) In all honesty? I just need to play more. I've been playing since day one PoGo. I've even been playing GBL on and off. But in most cases I haven't really cared for it. I understand everything about how GBL works and know the mechanics. I just need to keep playing it and get better at said mechanics. But I'm also just terrible when it comes to doing daily content in games haha I see those 25 matches and I get tired thinking about them already. (nevermind GBL days)

Thank you for your content!

Absolutely love the breakdown prior to the battles! Super helpful! One question tho-I have the XLs to build a kyurem but my best one is 14/15/15…would you suggest building or wait until it comes back to raids?

@HomeSliceHenry

4 ай бұрын

That's the same iv I use. The only thing it drops is cmp in the mirror Normally I don't like using 14 attack ml mons, but for this one, it actually doesn't drop meta matchups outside of cmp in the mirror

@sonnemondsterni7078

4 ай бұрын

Would a 15 15 14 kyurem work as well or does it lose a break point or something?

Kyurem is an underrated gem, one of the few that can corebreak palkia landorus

Kyurem is one of my all time favorite ML mons too! I run a shiny 15/15/14.

Goood battle nonetheless, super random but is the jacket what Henry avi wearing available at the shop or was it a 1 time exclusive I’m a lvl 42 I can’t seem to find it on stores

I remember three seasons ago in the Great league. I ran Alteria Gfisk and Mede and I went 25-0 but i see what you mean do to I did get hard countered and when there is a win con you see take it

oh man thank you so much for addressing the "hard-counter algorithm" conspiracy. people seem to not realize that there's always another person on the other side of the battle and for you to be hard-countered, the other person has to hard win. both happen to everyone, just the hard counters stick with us a little more because it feels bad.

Bro cooked a full buffet right there

Can someone explain what a "Safe switch" is?

Henry man you’ve gone Supersaiyan

Big fan of this format of videos where you can showcase your team & the mons you are running. It’s just a shame how inaccessible Solgaleo is for ML

@HomeSliceHenry

4 ай бұрын

Yeah ml has a big accessibility problem unfortunately. They've dramatically increased the ability to get rare xls, but it's still very tough road to get to 296 to actually 50 a solga.

@TomPlaysPoGo

4 ай бұрын

@@HomeSliceHenry yeah man, the xl candy isn’t an issue as I am hoarding as much as I can; the issue is with certain legendaries being accessible only once (Zygarde) & other legendaries being locked to season long research where again, you are stuck with one

Is 15 attack the most important for Solgaleo? Because I have one that's 15/10/14.

I have a 96% lucky Solgaleo just wish I had the candy to power it up

Question! Is there a difference between leveling up the last level with best buddy, compared to regular XL leveling?

@HomeSliceHenry

4 ай бұрын

Nope! Best buddying from level 49 to 50 accomplishes the same as powering up to level 50 with xls. The main difference is that you have to have best buddy equipped for it to be 50. For solgaleo, when possible I recommend the level 51 (50 + best buddy) to guarantee cmp vs best buddy zac and some useful fire spin breakpoints!

LMAO @ bad manners solar beam on the firebird you love to see it

My Solgaleo's IVs are 11, 12, 12. Wouldn't mind doing a mirror trade with a lucky friend someday for rerolled IVs.

I love using Genesect lead against Mewtwo one x scissor and able to get a farm down

I dont have a sogaleo what else can I use as a budget option. (PS:- I REALLYYYY NEEDED THIS. LOVE UR VIDEOS HSH)

@RyanHelm

4 ай бұрын

Metagross

@flygonnagetyou

4 ай бұрын

@@RyanHelm slander

@dereklong2839

4 ай бұрын

Probably Heatran

@HomeSliceHenry

4 ай бұрын

Heatran or rhyperior are potential replacements!

How do you have your level 50 Dragonite unfavorited?? That would scare me lol

I never had good solgaleo with good Iv. I recently got one with iv 14/15/15. some said it is unusable in masters. what do you guys think?

@davidcalixte9785

4 ай бұрын

You'd lose the mirror but I'd suggest running some Sims to see if there are other match ups you'd maybe lose out on. Personally it might still be useful

It’s annoying that I can‘t play this team since I don’t have Kyurem.

Thank you HSH for making that point about blind 3s. People don't gather that a blind 3v3 will encounter hard counters. No team is invincible to this. It's perfectly reasonable for someone using Zygarde that struggles with all the Master League fairies to put two fairy counters like Solgaleo and Heatran in the back. That's not a team specifically designed to beat you. That's just good teambuilding from your opponent playing to their strengths, not targeting you.

@Pablo-vn9hn

4 ай бұрын

I agree, but at least in my experience, gyarados is a safe pokemon to put in the lead if you got the correct pokemon in the back. Other than that I agree with everything you said.

Did PokeAK make a video about the "algorithm" again? Everyone seems to be talking about it again lol.

Should I build a 14-14-14 shadow Dragonite? It’s my best one

@NepNeppy

4 ай бұрын

Overall there is no difference for a 15 vs 14 in general performance but the only thing that you will struggle against is against a mirror match. The 1 IV difference in general does not impact your battles at all so it is okay to invest into a 14-14-14 if you like. Unless it is something like a 10-15-15 then you will notice many flaws but for a 1 IV difference you do not have to worry much about it.

@takecare3852

4 ай бұрын

@@NepNeppy wow thank you I appreciate the in depth explanation 💯

@Voliharmin

4 ай бұрын

I would build it. 14 14 14 shadow is amazing.

@takecare3852

4 ай бұрын

@@Voliharmin I’m very much considering it. Don’t know if I’ll get one better lol

🎉

Hard to maintain the highest elo when you're constantly meming on the meta, lol. Keep up the fun content!

Ya I rise fast with shadow ttar dnite solgaleo

It's always the same types of people to tell you that the algorithm doesn't exist. People who have enough time to learn everything and somehow don't mind learning move counts anew every 3 months. New pvp relevant Pokemon are also added regularly. But, dude. You can't just say that the algorithm doesn't exist and then give examples of it actually working.

@HomeSliceHenry

4 ай бұрын

There is no algorithm that pairs you with hard counters. That is a fact, no matter how much people believe otherwise. Matchmaking uses an elo system, pairing players with similar elo. Over the course of a season, the goal is to separate players into skill brackets, with the best players at the highest elos. The ELO system is also used in chess. When you play against players of your similar skill level, you will win about half of your matches. So win rates even out closer to 50-55% as a season goes on. I hit 3500 elo at 54% win rate (1124 wins/2080 battles). I had a higher win rate earlier in the season vs lower skilled opponents, then when I got to my skill bracket (similarly skilled opponents), my win rate approaches closer to 50%, as I'm playing battlers of a similar level. This is how the elo system works. Go Battle League uses a blind 3s format, so luck with what leads you see is an inherent part of the game. Some days? Great luck. Other days? Poor luck. Most of the time? Somewhere in between. Is this a magical algorithm hard countering you and you only? God no. It's the randomness of blind 3s. In the long run, lead luck evens out over the course of a season. From the perspective of a creator, if we try a team and lose a lot, we are less likely to feature it, so it gives the perception that creators win a massive amount. People don't often want to see bad teams haha so those teams get discarded, and only the successful teams get featured. I've for example had a brutal run in catch cup, losing 60-70% of leads these past few days tanking from above 3500 down to 3270ish. That team? Won't make youtube, people want to see successful strategies. But in the long run? Lead luck evens out. If you focus on what's in your control (the winnable games), and keep learning counts/improving your skill, you will achieve your goals. Believing in a fictional algorithm only hurts your ability to climb, as it deflects responsibility for losing from your own plays, to a fake algorithm.

@peleusthedragon5504

4 ай бұрын

Bro wrote an entire novel 💀

drag mag teams in pokemon...GO?? love from gen 5

@sourlemon1002

4 ай бұрын

Gotta love drag mag

@15:00 why would you think that there is a "made up algorithm" in this game when there is literally an algorithm in just about every other platform lol

that kyurem was beamin and i was creamin! #nocap

Solgaleo XL's are impossible when you're FTP. I've walked 1,000km with mine and I'm level 45.5

@madebyjo_l

4 ай бұрын

I just use every rare candy xls I get from raids on mine

lol all you did was switch out rayquaza for dragonite. Literally been running this ever since they nerfed ray ray

Bro, how do you have so many xl candy for dragonite? 😮

@anthonyiscoolxx

4 ай бұрын

dragonite is the easiest one to get XL candy for out of this team. it’s had 2 community days, been featured in many events, and there was just a dratini spotlight hour literally a few weeks ago. all you have to do is play the game

@HomeSliceHenry

4 ай бұрын

They had a com day classic for it and a few events where it spawned! Having a tier 3 dragon mega active was also helpful for getting extra xls per catch

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I’ve read that people often opt for conspiracy theories when they feel marginalized or powerless, as it gives them a sense of control. I agree that The Algorithm is not real, and I think you have humane advice here. It also makes me less frustrated with people who insist on The Algorithm when I consider that it’s probably a response to pain and frustration in many parts of their lives.

15:00 lol “made up algorithm” hope PokeAK don’t hear him say that 👀😂😂😂 I’m honestly neutral on the topic so I don’t really care I’m just stirring the pot lol.

Blame the algorithm… is this a jab at pokeAK lol

How can he play in master league it is not available right now 😂😂😂😂😂😂

second les go

15:03 Definitely not made up. It's a fact at this point.

@omarholder9036

4 ай бұрын

It's as much a fact as any religion. No proof, just a collection of people partaking in a group fever dream where everything you see validates the things you're looking for and not one lick of unbiased assessment is being applied at all.

8 min ago and early also 6th comment

"made up algorithm" lol shilling for a living

@HomeSliceHenry

4 ай бұрын

Not sponsored or affiliated with Niantic in anyway, just a teller of the truth. No matter how much people believe in an evil algorithm, doesn't make it true. Facts don't care about feelings. Matchmaking is done using an elo system, same as chess. Does not take into account what pokemon you use. Anyone saying otherwise is either misinformed, or deliberately lying

15:00 @pokeak

Today I used a interesting team in the great league and went 5 straight my opponents had no idea how to respond back. I used zangoose. Seviper. With shadow Alakazam.